From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:19:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Tip of the day: archaeology
Message-ID: <7vbqzk7i84.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512131351100.4184@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> 
>> *1* Sometimes I wish we had "cvs co -p" equivalent.
>> 
>> 	$ git cat-blob rev path
>> 
>> Perhaps?
>
> Isn't "git-ls-tree rev path" good enough? Maybe you want to wrap it with
>
> 	#!/bin/sh
> 	git-ls-tree "$@" |
> 		while read mode type sha name
> 		do
> 			git-cat-file $type $sha
> 		done
>
> or something? 

Exactly.  The point was that we do not ship a prepackaged script
like that.